So i thought i would put my hand in on the battle reports Forum and throw down a 1500 point Tournament that was held at our
FLGS and show case my Tyranid army (i generally run the Space wolves) So, a little bit of "Fear" before the tournament do to the lack of total models put together, but i was able to get some from another Nid player who wasn't competeing in the event. So Here is the list i ran
HQ:
Hive Tyrant - 170
Hive
cmd -25
Heavy venom cannon -25 -280
Regeneration -20
Armoured shell -40
2x Tyrant Gaurd - 120
2x Lash whips - 10 -130
Tyranid Prime - 80
Regeneration - 10
Lash Whip + Bone sword -15 - 105
Troops:
4x Warrior -120
4x Bone sword / lash whip - 60
1x Barbed Strangler -10 - 205
3x Deathspitters - 15
10 Genestealers - 140
1 Broodlord (upgraded so i still only have 10 in the unit) -46 206
9 Scything talons -18
15x Termigaunts -75 -150
15x Devourers -75
Tervigon -160
Regeneration -30 -205
Catalyst - 15
Elites:
2x zoanthropes - 120 pts
2x Hive gaurd - 100 pts
Something similar to that, i don't have my codex or the actual List with me, as the tounament took place on saturday. Anyhow, There were 13 other competetors at the event, and my First match up was allready looking pretty rough.
Tyranids Vs Imperial Gaurd
His list (again, not 100% on everything)
1
CCS With 3+ Plasma Guns in a chimera
3 Vet Squads each with 3 Meltaguns 2 squads in chimera's one in valkeryie
10 man Psyker battle Squad (1 overseer) in a chimera
2 Medusa's
1 manticore
So For this match, it was Dawn of War, with Seize ground as the mission type, and 5 objectives, i won the roll to go first and gladly did so. I think the dawn of war personally worked out in my favor, as i placed my Hive tyrant and tyrant gaurd in the dead center of the table, my Devourer Gaunts near my table edge in a ruin (on the second third and fourth level) and they held an objective, and my Tervigon on the Far right, near the middle of the table about 6 inchs off an objective which is close to my table edge. I elect to Outflank both my Genestealers and Warriors as the Hive tyrant gives them the abilite. From there he deploys absolutly nothing. So kinda figureing he will roll everything in on his table edge, i start my turn off with moving my Tyrant and gaurd behind a giant
LOS blocking Imperial Bastion (that was close to the middle of the board) and i move on the board my Hive Gaurd, and Zoanthropes (they came in about 2 feet from my left table edge, and moved on 6") my Tervigon spat out 9 Termigaunts that got spit onto the objective, and they stayed there but it also caused him to exaust his eggs. From there he moved out of the building cover, and into plain line of sight. since i had nothing to shoot at, The Zoanthropes, Hive gaurd, and Tervigon ran, All exept the Tervigon pretty much moved further onto the table, the tervigon dived behind another building and about 5" away from a third objective. That ended my turn, and now i heard the rumbling from tanks
His Turn
He moved his medusa's Center of the table, and only 6 inchs in, and that placed them well behind a few ruins large enough to give him cover, They had the netting so he sat comfy with a 3+ obscured save. From there he moved his Manticore twelve inchs into some ruins and into a difficult terrien test, and immobilized it! (i gave a fist pump, i hate those tanks XD) it was about 6" from the left side of the table for me, his right, so a prime spot for my gene and warrior broods to hit. He then Moved his Valkyrie 12 inchs beside that (so like 2 inchs from the table edge) and his chimeras deployed between the medusa and manticore units. He kind held to that corner pretty well. his shooting phase worked....better then my first one. he managed to put a wound on my Zoanthrope with a multilazer from his Chimera's and piddled out the rest of his shots.
So End of round 1, i hold 2 Objectives, he holds 0 (he was 7 inchs from two he had near him)
Turn 2,
This got a bit more Interesting for my shooting, i started by moving my tervigon to hold the third objective, and for the rest of the game, he pretty much Chilled there. completely, i then moved my Tyrant and Gaurd up 6 inchs, i felt pretty good cause if anything other then ordanince barrage type of things shot at me, i had plenty of tall ruins to give me a cover save. i then rolled and got my Warrior squad, but not my Genestealer squad. They Outflanked and i got to choose, so they went straight after the
CCS Chimera, it had placed some very very nice rear armour shots and with the deathspitters, i mighta been able to pop it, so i went for that, if anything the assualt coulda yeild some good resualts. My zoays moved up a few inchs, and the hive gaurd did the same. the two gaunt units stayed put in their nice and cover filled ruins. My shooting started, and i must say it suuuuuccckkkkeed for the zoays, they did absolutly nothing, Missed or failed their tests, and the hive gaurd where out of range so they didn't do anything either. My tyrant scored a Pen on one of the Medusa's but it saved with the 3+ and my warriors ripped off every weapon from the
CCS Chimera, and stunned it. In the assualt phase the warriors charged in and managed to stun the Chimera even more, but nothing else.
His turn
He moved his chimera's in the back around, two position them for two flamer attacks on my warriors and give the warriors front armour, not rear for shooting. He then moved his valk forward 12 inchs, got his Vets out, and took aim at my Zoays, he then started his shooting, His manticore and Medusa units missed my Tyrant completely, giving them nothing at all to work with. His valk + vet Squad put many shots into the zoays, and killed them. (i failed every save and the melta's got em) From there, he flamed the Warriors, killing one, and then multilazered killing another. He had nothing to assault
End of Turn two, i held 3 objectives he held 1 (he moved one chimera onto it)
Turn Three
I Failed to get my Genestealers in, so i felt i needed to do something to save my warriors hides up top, plus i lost the zoays so i felt kinda bad about that. I moved my Tyrant up a little more, and my hive gaurd passed Instictive behaviour, and proceded towards the Valk + Vets. My Gaunts stayed put and so did the tervigon. Into shooting my warriors didn't do anything to the wall of chimera tanks infront of them, and the tyrant again pen'd but it got saved from the medusa's again. The hive gaurds Wrecked the Valkyrie, and everything else was out of range. the warriors then assualted the chimera's with a multiple assualt, and i actually managed to destroy both of the heavy flamers from them, and the multi laser from one, so only one weapon left on those bad boys. and one got stunned. My Tyrant failed his assualt as he was just a little bit out of range.
His turn
His command Chimera no longer stunned he moved it back a bit, and dropped his
CCS, he then moved his one non stunned Chimera back 12 inchs and dropped his vets, they looked at my tyrant quite hungrly. His Valk Vets moved back a little to try and not give my Gaurd an assualt if they got to that point, and then he moved into shooting, his
CCS Tryed to order the Vets that got out of the chimera "Bring it down" to wreck my Tyrant, it Failed, he then gave his own squad the order to make me reroll Cover saves. That one passed. From there he proceded to Put one wound on my Tyrant Gaurd with the Medusa's missed again with the manticore, and he then took some tolls on me, He killed one Hive gaurd, he killed both Tyrant gaurd and put 2 wounds on my Tyrant, he then killed all but one warrior. Plasma guns suck, no assualts from him again, he rapid fired his weapons.
End of Turn 3 i held 3 objectives, he held 0 (he moved off his objective to deal with the Tyrant
Turn 4
Good lord my Genestealers are coming on! and they got to go where i wanted em, and that warrior needed some love, so they ran on that side of the table. they ran right up in a nice line to get 2 chimera's and a manticore. From there, my tyrant got one wound back from his Regeneration, he moved towards the Gaurdsmen so he could assualt them, the Hive Gaurd passed
IB again, and moved towards those vets, and this is where the best magic i have ever seen in a tournement happened. I started shooting with my Hive gaurd, who splattered two Vets, and got ready to assault. this is where i found love in the tyrant even more, he used leech life on the gaurdsman, killed 2 got his wound back, then shot at them with the Heavy Venom Cannon, it scattered back just perfectly upon their chimera, and pen'd it, and wrecked it. so he took a nice causeilty rate on the start of the shooting. My Warrior pressed the deathspitter at side armour, and did nothing, and the genestealers ran a tiny bit to get into better position. Then hell broke loose, Warrior, Tyrant, Genestealers, and Gaurd assaualted. The Tyrant killed five on his assualt, they did nothing back, lost by five, ran away and got sweeping advanced, he then rolled to consolidate, and got 6 inchs, My Genestealers Multiple assualted the Psycker Chimera, the Manticore, and the
CCS Chimera (which was empty) none of which had moved (as one was immoble the others stunned) And They + broodlord blew up the Tank, and the
CCS Chimera, and stunned the Psyker Chimera. Since the warrior was going to hit the
CCS Chimera, but couldnt he lost out. My Hive gaurd charged in, the Gaurdsmen did nothing to him, but he killed two of them, they lost the
CC role, ran away i failed to sweep em, and they ran back 9 inchs. The Tank and Chimera which blew up, took down 2 of the
CCS with the explosion, but didn't kill any genestealers. so pretty awesome turn i'd say
his Turn
He failed his leadership on the Running vets, they ran another 2 inchs, He couldn't move anything so went straight into shooting, His medusa's missed the tyrant, and the
CCS issued orders to regroup to the vets (so they did) they shot at my Hive gaurd but missed horribly. His Psykers did nothing again, and his command squad killed 3 genestealers, the Stealers passed Leadership and stayed. he had no assualts so moved to my turn
End of four, i held 3 still to his 0
Turn 5,
My genestealers moved forward to partically Circle his psykers chimera, the warrior moved towards his command squad, and the tyrant moved within assualt distance of his Medusa's, The hive gaurd passed
IB again, and moved toward the Vets again. In shooting the tyrant wrekced a Medusa, (no longer cover as he moved around the ruins to get clear shots) the genestealers ran, and circled the Chimera, the warrior shot and killed 2 more
CCS Memebers, and the hive gaurd killed anoter Vet. on to assualts, the Tyrant assualted his last Tank, and Ripped it to peices, the hive gaurd assualted his vets, ate another, but they passed leadership this time, the warrior charged the
CCS and killed them all minus one, then Sweept that last one up, the Genestealers + Broodlord wrecked the Psyker CHimera, and sinc it was surrounded and the psyckers couldn't get out withint 2 inch's without being within an 1" of my Gene's they were wiped out.
His Turn 5
he pretty much just wanted it to end at this point, but still wanted me to work for the massicere, his last unit on the board engaged with my Hive gaurd did nothing, and my Hive gaurd did nothing.
He rolled to see if it continued, and it did. So end of Turn 5 i hold 4 objectives (i picked one up with the genestealers off their consolidation) and he held 0
Turn 6, i moved my tryant into range, my warrior moved onto the last objective, and no shooting, and the tyrant was juuuuust in range to get the assualt, he charged in, and HIm + Hive gaurd ate the last vets off the table....Complete massicure with me holding all 5 objectives and i got the "bonus" points for that mission set up as well
So i know i missed a few things like Leadership tests, and whatnot here and there, but it was all done, i also know my grammer is horrid, my Firefox dosn't let me right click anything
lol
in a bit, ill edit the other two missions and battles from the event
hands need rest
Okay Second Batte is Against Salamanders, its a Spearhead and Capture and control point. i got to go first once again, and he went second, He aslo opted out of trying to steal the initiative.
His list (again Roughly)
HQ
Vulkan He'stan
Troops
2 10 man
Tac Squad With Drop pod, COmbat squaded, flamers only in each
1 Ten man
Tac Squad with Multi Melta, FLamer with a drop pod (attached with Vulkan)
3 Dreadnaughts with Multimelta + Heavy Flamer
DCCW all with Drop pods
3 Independent Landspeeders, all Multimelta / heavy flamer type
So he has 6 Drop pods Ugh!
I pretty much placed my Tyrant 12 inchs from my Left Table edge, and 24 inchs to the middle, with his gaurd, i wanted the tyrant to interecept pods if he could. My Tervigon deployed about the same distance from the left, but like 4 inchs from my table edge. The Devourer gaunts were deployed in runes in cover on my objective, the warriors were placed as far toward the middle as they could go, the Hive gaurd where placed withing 8 inchs of the Tyrant, and the Zoays were placed dead center of my table edge. I chose to infiltrate my Genestealers this time.
He Deployed the two other halves of his Combat Squads, one on his objective the other about dead center of his "table quarter" I then infiltrated my Genestealers 18" away in cover.
Turn one started, i moved my warriors, Tyrant and Genestealers up. The tervigon spit up 14 Gaunts, no doubles, he is good, they moved about to surround him pretty good. The zoays moved up a little bit. From there the Warriors shot at the
Tac marines on his objective, the Deathspitters were out, but the barbed strangler managed to kill one, and pin them! The genestealers ran closer to the Marines, about 8inchs out. the tyrant was a bit shy to shoot at the marines so ended my turn one....
His turn
He Dropped in three drop pods via drop pod assualt, Vulkan and his crew landed 4 inchs away from the Tervigon and the mass of Gaunts, one five man
tac squad dropped 6 inchs from my Hive gaurd and Tyrant, the other dropped 3 inchs from my warriors. He then procceded to shoot. He killed 2 gaunts with a flamer, wounded one zoay, and wounded one warrior, he also killed off 3 genestealers (they stayed) he also Wounded one hive gaurd from the flamer who killed the gaunts. He had no assualts since he rapid fired at the genestealers, so it ended turn one
Turn one, Tie, we both hold our objectives.
Turn two
we both joked how he was going to loose all his troops in a matter of moments, save maybe one
tac squad. All his troops were about a few inchs from all my nastys, so i started off spitting out another 11 gaunts from the tervigon, again, no doubles so i kept it going, My warriors turned and moved toward the 5 man squad close by, the genestealers moved up toward the one
tac squad, the tyrant had to move AROUND the drop pod, the hive gaurd repositioned, and then into shooting. The Tervigon gave a gaunt unit near vulkan and his
tac marines Feel no pain, and shot and missed. The zoays Killed two of the bolter marines on Vulks squad, and the Devourer gaunts killed all but the flamer from the 5 man
tac sqaud closest to my Tyrant and Hive gaurd. From there, the Tyrant put his Heavy Venom cannon on Vulks squad cause i was confident my Hive gaurd could kill one mairne with a flamer. He missed, and did nothing, The warriors shot and killed the entire 5 man squad they went after, and the gene stealers ran a little to get better coverage on the marine unit. assualts! The hive gaurd hit the one lone flamer, and seriously he wounded and KILLED the wounded gaurd, the other one was able to finish him off though. the genestealers destroyed the Five man
tac squad they went after without even letting them get an attack in. The Termigaunts attacked, both spawned units on vulkans squad (they did shoot him...but didn't even manage to wound, sad days) But they let themselves rock in close combat, they killed two marines, and only lost 2 termigaunts! tie combat!
his turn 2, He rolls for his Landspeeders, and Dreadnaughts, he gets two speeders and one dread. The Dread he drops right infront of my Zoays, It gets out and yells at them. His speeders fly up 12" and get ready to flame the CRAAAP out of my Genestealers. And the only
tac squad still alive gets ready to shoot. He pretty much kills all of my Genestealers minus the broodlord. Whom took a wound. he killed my Zoanthropes with the Dreadnaught, and then into the assualts, he won with vulkans squad by two, and i only lost 3 Guants total from that fight.
End of two, we both still hold our objectives!
Turn 3
Well i kinda figured this pain was ganna happen, so i start moving my Tyrant toward the Vulkan Mess. My Tervigon spits out another 14 gaunts (again, no doubles!) and moves toward the dreadnaught, getting into assualt range. The Hive gaurd moves a bit toward the mass of gaunts, since i know he will go after him since the zoays are gone. My Broodlord runs toward the last
tac squad on the hill, and gets up within range. the warriors also move that direction, more toward the landspeeders though. In the shooting face, my Tervigon does nothing to the dread, and gives the larger Termigaunt squad Feel no pain. the tyrant misses a drop pod with his Venom cannon (he wasn't close enough to join the assualt yet) my warriors Wreck a landspeeder with deathspitters! and since there was nothign in range for shooting, the third spawned termigaunt unit asssualts into Vulk, and the brood assualts the
tac combat squad, and the Tervigon attacks the Dreadnaught. The Broodlord kills two marines (one rend one failed armour) they Deal no wounds back, fail combat, but make their leadership, so that combat ended. The Tervigon took 3 wounds, but Wrecked the Dreadnaught on his first and only hit. The Termigaunts lost by 1 and i lost 1 from both non Feel no pain unit. and Vulks squad is down to vulkan and about 3~4 Marines now.
His turn 3. He rolls and gets his other Dreadnaught, but nothing else. it drops to the "Other" side of my Tervigon, and gets ready to shoot it, his Speeder moves closer to my warriors, and gets ready to wax them. Since that is all he has not locked into combat, he opens up shooting. His Drop pods (five on the table, four can shoot) shoot at my warriors, making a wound, but i save it. Then his Speeder blows a warrior to hell with a melta shot, but is out of range for the Flamer. His dreadnaught puts 1 more wound onto the Tervigon, meaning i have 2 left :O and i loose again by one and this time i loose no gaunts to armour checks! Pretty rough so far
End of 3, i hold my objective and contest his with my Brood lord.
Turn 4
Imove my tyrant closer to Vulkan and crew, and get ready to assualt. the warriors move closer to his objective, but keep the Landspeeder in range, and the tervigon spawns another 11 Gaunts! (finally some doubles) he fails all his regeneration rolls as well :( they move to get close to Vulkans squad. everything else stays put. For shooting, my warriors rip up his last speeder with Deathspitters again! so two speeders down one still not on the board yet!
my Tervigon puts Feel no pain on a gaunt sqaud again, and then shoots at the dread to do nothing! the hive gaurd fails to blow up a drop pod. then assualts, my Broodlord finishes off those marines, and now holds that objective. My Tervigon runs into the dread, takes one wound, and then wrecks the dread. The termigaunts kill all but one marine (multimelta) and Vulkan is still 100% and my Tyrant joins! he had a clear line to vulkan, but chooses to put his attacks on the unit, he of course kills the unit off. But vulkan still lives. I win combat on that, but vulkan rolls double ones and laughs at the Swarn he is buried to his neckplates in.
His turn four
well he only has two more things to roll for, and he gets his last dready in. Being very careful of my tervigon now, he drops this one 5 inchs off my objective, and is able to drop the Dreadnaught out within 3 inchs of it contesting it. and then shoots the melta at my hive gaurd, and i make my cover save, the flamer he shot fails to wound, but it does kill a few gaunts. i move so im not near my objective anymore. and it goes to assualts, Vulkan Finishes off one of the first two gaunt squads, and then i put everything into him. i deal enough wounds to bring down a pack of Elephants, but they dont get 3+ invuls. he only fails one wound (a 2+ armour even) to a gaunt. I loose a few more gaunts from the various squads and i loose a tyrant gaurd to fearless wound rolls.
End of Turn 4, I hold his objective, he contests mine.
Turn 5
This is it! i put my Tervigons regen rolls to good use, he gets 2 wounds back! so he has 3 left again. he then moves toward the dreadnaught but can't get into the assualt. My Devourer gaunts move back into 2 inchs of the objective. and then the hive guard moves into clear shot of the dreadnaught. my warriors move up to be within 3 inchs of his objective since i know his last speeder can zip in and eat my Broodlord with a melta shot. From there, Shooting, the hive gaurd shoots....and scores! one more wrecked dreadnaught! i hold both objectives again! to the assualts, my Termigaunts put another wound on vulkan, and he then saves all vs my tyrant, and we score even on that combat.
His turn 5
With only one option left to not face a major loss, his speeder zips onto the table, and 12 inchs later is contesting the objective. Then it melta' shots my Broodlord for his last wound, and he eats it. my warriors are still there though. we then get to Vulkans fight, and he lives again, and i loose some more gaunts. no wounds on the Tyrant and gaurd.
he concedes to a minor loss, but when i urge to let him give me the chance to get a major win for him rolling to see if it continues, he agrees and rolls the dice, the game continues, and i just shake up the landspeeder not kill it, but i do get vulkan finally. to see if it goes to 7 it doesnt so the end result is
Nids 1 Objective, sallys 0
It was close to a Massacere, and if it continued to turn 7 it might have been a full massacere or at least a major win, but for now i took the Minor win with full bonus points et agian, and felt good cuase i seriously did not think i was going to do even remotly well against the Salamanders with the nids
but to be honost that game was one of the best games i had ever played in a long long time, it was fit with two really good players (in my not so humble opinion heh) and it was a good fight most the way around!
So far i have 2 wins, one massacre one minor victory. the third match was against the other high pointer. and he plays Dark Eldar! will post more on that later XD
